“A man is not what he wears or does, nor is his worth equivalent to the sum total of the pricetags of his education, income, vehicle and home.”

“The old poets sing sonnets of how nature and the gods themselves bend their knees and reach down to men who muster up such momentum.”

“By the forces of time and season, gravity and pressure, friction and power, the paths have been paved and all roads have been laid.”

“With songs of rhyme and rhythm nestled in her wake.”

“The result is an ever retreating access to the full range of emotional experience which we are by default granted as our inborn talents.”

“As a special species which requires its children to be cared for and chaperoned for a stretch of time which is measured by years, we are left unconditionally influenced by whatever nurturing forces exist.”

“We look to the stars and down to the earth with its gamut of flora and fauna, hardly ever wincing for a moment in realization that we do not know what is happening before us.”

“For it is a form of violence that we carry with us when our eyes fail to watch our feet.”

“Sooner or later — and hopefully sooner — people realize how futile it is to attempt to claim nobility through efforts to outdo one another.”

“A failure to relax one side of the scale will unfailingly create a deficit and deficiency on the other, and so begins a self-propagating cycle.”